Moscow Round Canceled, 13 WSBK Rounds for 2015

The World Superbike calendar has been reduced to 13 events. The Russian round of WSBK, scheduled to be held at the Moscow Raceway on July 5th has been canceled, after the event organizer, YMS Promotion, failed to provide the contract guarantees required by the contract.

As a further consequence, the Yakhnich Motorsport Team have also lost their slot on the 2015 World Supersport grid, which was tied in with the Russian round.

The cancellation of the Russian round did not come as a surprise. The Russian WSBK round is a legacy of the last years of Infront running the series.

Infront and YMS signed a ten-year deal to organize a World Superbike round in Russia, but continuing political instability in Russia, tensions between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, and murky regional politics have made it impossible to stage a race there.

The round was placed on the calendar automatically, because of the existing contract, but it was never expected to actually take place.

The Russian round of World Superbikes will not be replaced. Instead, the series will run 13 rounds in 2015. Below is the updated 2015 WSBK calendar.

2015 World Superbike Provisional Calendar, as of February 11th:

DATE	COUNTRY	CIRCUIT	WSBK	WSS	STK1000	STK600
February 22	Australia	Phillip Island GP Circuit	X	X
March 22	Thailand	Chang International Circuit	X	X
April 12	Spain	MotorLand Aragón	X	X	X	X**
April 19	The Netherlands	TT Circuit Assen	X	X	X	X
May 10	Italy	Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari di Imola	X	X	X	X
May 24	UK	Donington Park	X	X	X
June 07	Portugal	Autódromo Internacional do Algarve*	X	X	X	X
June 21	Italy	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	X	X	X	X
July 19	USA	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	X
August 02	Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	X	X
September 20	Spain	Circuito de Jerez	X	X	X	X
October 04	France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	X	X	X	X
October 18	Qatar	Losail International Circuit*	X	X